Nielsen announces his “10 best intranets of 2006” By Nic Price on 23 January 2006 — 1 min read And they are: Allianz Australia Insurance, Australia ALTANA Pharma AG, Germany Bank of Ireland Group, Ireland Capital One, USA IBM, USA Merrill Lynch, USA METRO Group, Germany O2, UK Staples, USA Vodafone, UK Summary: This year, we saw increased use of multimedia, e-learning, internal blogs, and mobile access. Winning companies also encouraged consistent design by... More
The intranet By Nic Price on 23 January 2006 — 1 min read pervasive adj 1: spread throughout; “a pervasive anxiety overshadows the triumphs of individuals” [syn: pervading] 2: spreading throughout; “armed with permeative irony…he punctures affectations”; “the pervasive odor of garlic”; “an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion” [syn: permeant, permeating, permeative] fabric n 1: artifact made by weaving or felting... More
links for 2006-01-22 By Nic Price on 23 January 2006 — 1 min read A List Apart: Articles: Web 3.0 More
So this blog is one year old today By Nic Price on 22 January 2006 — 1 min read 244 posts 105 comments 29 categories Most frequent commenter: Mum 🙂 More
Name that tune By Nic Price on 20 January 2006 — 1 min read Sounds fun, I haven’t tried it yet. My friend Paul R says it’s only got 1 out of 3 of his so far! songtapper.com Song Search and Retrieval by Tapping This site lets you search for a song, by tapping the rhythm of its words (lyrics). Let’s say you have a song stuck in your... More
links for 2006-01-18 By Nic Price on 19 January 2006 — 1 min read Intranet Benchmarking Forum (tags: ibf intranets benchmarking intranet) Google Touts Bigger Mini If they can do 500,000 documents for circa $12000 they’d be laughing and so would we (tags: intranets search enterprisesearch google googlemini intranet) Search for your family name to see how it’s distributed throughout the UK “A recent research project based at University... More
LinkedOut By Nic Price on 18 January 2006 — 1 min read Recently I’ve had quite a few invitations to join LinkedIn. So I joined and checked it out and there’s something about it makes me feel a little uneasy. I think it has to do with my instant aversion to the idea of actively “networking” as a business activity – it just brings the cynic out... More
Your site may never get a second chance to make a first impression By Nic Price on 16 January 2006 — 1 min read It’s an aura thing. Internet users make up their minds about the quality of a website in the blink of an eye, a study shows. Researchers [from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada] found that the brain makes decisions in just a twentieth of a second of viewing a webpage. They were surprised as they believed... More
Thigh Tech By Nic Price on 16 January 2006 — 1 min read Just wondering… Was this intentional? Does it bring in more business than if they’d placed their logo somewhere else? More
Old Git By Nic Price on 16 January 2006 — 1 min read When a man gits old he jist likes to sit without botherment. From a book on photography from 1943. More